A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 93 18. 1503 procedure. The Sub-Commission emphasizes the need for a confidential complaints procedure that may provide an effective and timely remedy to victims of gross violations of human rights. To that end, the reforms set out in Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/3 of 16 June 2000 should be modified so as to: (a) restore the authority of a plenary body of independent experts, as envisaged in paragraph 5 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII), to refer to the Human Rights Council for consideration particular situations which appear to reveal a consistent pattern of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights; and (b) ensure that a working group of the Human Rights Council, as in the case of the Working Group on Situations of the Commission on Human Rights until the reform of 2000, would have a preparatory role, aimed at facilitating the Council’s consideration of the situations referred to it, and not a filtering function. Coherence function 19. The coherence function would be discharged by establishing close cooperation and coordination between all parts of the human rights system, and other parts of the international system as appropriate, and by giving the future expert advice mechanism the mandate to promote the coherence of the system as a whole. In order to achieve this goal, without prejudice to other forms of cooperation and coordination, the expert body should meet for one meeting a year with thematic special procedures established by the Human Rights Council to examine possible input to be provided by each subsystem to the work of the other so that the Council receives from both of them coherent and well-thought-out proposals and to consider issues of common interest within the mandate of the future expert advice mechanism. The expert body should be represented, on the basis of equal status, at coordination meetings of the special procedures. Identification of lacunae, challenges and implementation needs and follow-up 20. The identification of lacunae, challenges and implementation needs and follow-up would be facilitated by, first, assisting the widest possible participation in the work of the future expert advice mechanism (see paragraph 8 of the recommendations above); second, by ensuring that the body maintains a general debate, as a separate agenda item; third, by ensuring that the body maintains a separate agenda item entitled identification of lacunae, challenges, implementation needs and, fourth, by ensuring that the body maintains a separate agenda item on the follow-up of previous initiatives of the expert body. C. Criteria for membership and election Composition 21. The future expert advice mechanism should be composed of not fewer than 26 members (see paragraph 17 of the recommendations above) in order to ensure a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds and to reflect different perspectives within, as well as between, different regions.